My Guitars

Over the years, I’ve owned quite a few guitars (just over 100, if my records & math skills are correct). While I never had much money or room for guitar gear while I was in college, after I graduated and got a real job I became an avid Ibanez collector (since guitar heroes Vai, Satriani, and Petrucci were all Ibanez endorsees at the time), focusing on signature models and other high-end models like J-Customs, Prestiges, & USA Customs.

Then early 2004 I started trading my Ibanez guitars in for PRS guitars... I had slowly been losing fascination with the floating trems and thin necks. After spending a couple weeks playing nothing but my fiancee's (now wife's) late 70's Gibson Les Paul Pro, I had re-discovered the satisfaction of pounding away on mahogany-bodied maple-topped set-neck guitars. After getting hooked up with a PRS catalog and DVD, I took the plunge on a fixed-bridge Custom 24, which led to another, and another, until I had 16 PRSi occupying the racks.

Recently I’ve diversified the collection by selling a few PRSi and adding a few G&L’s, a couple hollowbodies, a 7-string, a 12-string, and a few other random axes. It's definitely cool to have the variety for recording projects, although it's safe to say that I'll keep playing PRSi for most rehearsals & gigs.

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Electric guitars: Carvin DC120 12-string Casio MG-510 MIDI guitar Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci 7-string Ernie Ball Music Man Steve Morse G&L ASAT Classic G&L ASAT Special Deluxe G&L Comanche G&L Legacy Standard Gibson Firebird Non-Reverse Gretsch G6120-1959 Chet Atkins hollowbody Hamer Eclipse Heritage H-535 semi-hollowbody Paul Reed Smith 305 '07 Paul Reed Smith 513 mahogany '00 Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 w/ Dragon I pickups ‘02 Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 semi-hollowbody ‘98 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 violin amber burst w/ Artist pickups ‘02 Paul Reed Smith Custom 24 whale blue '07 Paul Reed Smith McCarty Korina ‘01 Paul Reed Smith McCarty Rosewood ‘98 Paul Reed Smith McCarty Soapbar '07 Paul Reed Smith Mira ‘01 Paul Reed Smith Singlecut '06 Paul Reed Smith Singlecut Satin Trem w/ RP pickups '03 Paul Reed Smith Standard 24 Paul Reed Smith Starla Paul Reed Smith Sunburst 245 Taylor Solidbody Classic Voodoo Guitar Works custom archtop Acoustic instruments: Alvarez banjo Gibson Country Western model Guild DC5E-NT True American acoustic-electric Guild F47M-CE mini-jumbo acoustic-electric Rogue FM-80E acoustic-electric mandolin Takamine EF-385 12-string acoustic-electric Basses: G&L Tribute L-2500 5-string Yamaha RBX800AF fretless Accessories: Big Bends Nut Sauce tuning lubricant D'Addario EXP acoustic guitar strings -- custom light 11-52 80/20 & phosphor bronze, 12-string light 10-47 D'Addario EXP bass guitar strings -- 5-string soft 45-130 Dunlop Dual-Design Straplocks -- nickel, black, gold Dunlop Formula 65 guitar polish Dunlop Hoolahan & chromed steel slides Dunlop Tortex Standard picks -- .88mm, 1.0mm, 1.14mm E-bow Elixir Nanoweb electric guitar strings -- super light 9-42 for tremolos, light 10-46 for fixed bridges, medium 11-52 for hollowbodies Ernie Ball Flatwound III bass strings Ernie Ball Super Slinky electric guitar strings -- 7-string 9-52 Fender ElectroVolt instrument cables Finger-ease guitar string lubricant George L's vintage red effects cables GHS Fast-Fret string cleaner GHS acoustic slide guitar strings -- 16-56 Golden Gate resonator guitar extension nut Kyser Quick-Change capos -- 6-string, 12-string Levy's leather guitar straps Planet Waves Jacquard woven guitar straps Roggenburg oak guitar stands -- 3-acoustic stand, 9-electric stands Shubb-Pearse SP3 guitar steel Warwick RockStand folding 5-guitar stand

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